Lexicographical Neighbors of Theow
Literary usage of Theow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early England and the Saxon-english: With Some Notes on the Father-stock of by William Barnes (1869)
"It might be thought that the wite-theow might flee from his lord, or thinger;
but there was a heavy fine for the harbouring of a runagate ; and if a man ..."
2. Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law: Being an Essay Supplemental To: (1) The by Frederic Seebohm (1902)
"(24) If a wite theow, an Englishman, steal himself away, let him be • hanged and
nothing paid to his lord. If any one slay him let nothing be paid to his ..."
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